• Robert W Floyd (June 8, 1936 – September 25, 2001) was a computer scientist. His contributions include the design of the Floyd–Warshall algorithm (independently...
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  • Miami, Florida Robert J. Floyd, state legislator in Florida Robert W. Floyd (1936–2001), computer scientist Robert "Bob" Floyd, a fictional pilot in the...
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    Floyd–Steinberg dithering is an image dithering algorithm first published in 1976 by Robert W. Floyd and Louis Steinberg. It is commonly used by image...
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  • In computer science, the Floyd-Rivest algorithm is a selection algorithm developed by Robert W. Floyd and Ronald L. Rivest that has an optimal expected...
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  • and other researchers. The original ideas were seeded by the work of Robert W. Floyd, who had published a similar system for flowcharts. The central feature...
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  • to obtain using a deterministic one. The notion was introduced by Robert W. Floyd in 1967. Often in computational theory, the term "algorithm" refers...
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  • algorithms are known for finding cycles quickly and with little memory. Robert W. Floyd's tortoise and hare algorithm moves two pointers at different speeds...
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    J. W. J. Williams in 1964. The paper also introduced the binary heap as a useful data structure in its own right. In the same year, Robert W. Floyd published...
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  • certain platform, thereby creating a model of computation. In 1967, Robert W. Floyd published the paper Assigning meanings to programs; his chief aim was...
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    Stanford 1969–2000; Professor Emeritus at Stanford (2000–present). Robert W. Floyd: BA 1953, BSc Physics, both from the University of Chicago. Professor...
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    computer science field. Floyd was granted an honorary professorship at TU Wien on 26 January 2012. She was married to Robert W. Floyd and Peter Naur — both...
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    Sugarloaf Ted Darling (1935–1996), Buffalo Sabres television announcer Robert W. Floyd (1936–2001), computer scientist Lee Holloway (born 1982), computer...
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    Edsger W. EWD-475 (PDF). E.W. Dijkstra Archive. Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. (transcription) Dijkstra, Edsger W. EWD-539...
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    science from Stanford University in 1974 for research supervised by Robert W. Floyd. At MIT, Rivest is a member of the Theory of Computation Group, and...
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  • paradigm as such dates at least to 1978, in the Turing Award lecture of Robert W. Floyd, entitled The Paradigms of Programming, which cites the notion of paradigm...
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  • (song), by All That Remains Chiron, a programming language created by Robert W. Floyd Chiron, a son of Tamora, Queen of Goths, in Shakespeare's tragedy Titus...
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  • George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an African American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota...
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    (with a minor in mathematics) in 1972. At Stanford, he was supervised by Robert Floyd and Donald Knuth, both highly prominent computer scientists, and his...
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    Archived from the original on January 5, 2024. Retrieved March 4, 2024. Floyd, R. W. (1979). "The paradigms of programming". Communications of the ACM. 22...
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  • independently Robert W. Floyd recognized it as a sorting algorithm. Initial analysis was done by Mallows. Floyd's game was developed by Floyd in correspondence...
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    Art of Computer Programming. "Robert W Floyd, In Memoriam", by Donald E. Knuth, 2003 - (on the influence of Bob Floyd) TAoCP and its Influence of Computer...
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  • Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic groups, they were distinguished...
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    Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. (né Sinclair; born February 24, 1977) is an American boxing promoter and former professional boxer who competed between 1996...
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  • ALGOL W is a programming language. It is based on a proposal for ALGOL X by Niklaus Wirth and Tony Hoare as a successor to ALGOL 60. ALGOL W is a relatively...
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  • player Pretty Boy Floyd (Charles Arthur Floyd, 1904–1934), American bank robber Raymond Floyd (born 1942), American golfer Robert W. Floyd (1936–2001), computer...
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  • automata theory, the structured programming theory of Edsger Dijkstra, Robert W. Floyd, and others, and Markov chain-driven software testing. His Cleanroom...
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  • rock band Pink Floyd, released on 21 January 1977 through Harvest Records and Columbia Records. It was self-produced at Pink Floyd's Britannia Row Studios...
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  • examples."ACM Computing Surveys. vol. 46, no. 3, February 2014([1] Robert W. Floyd (1967). "Assigning Meanings to Programs" (PDF). In J.T. Schwartz (ed...
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  • in their careers, including Michael J. Fischer, Stephen Warshall, Robert W. Floyd, and Leslie Lamport. Some of the systems they worked on include AMBIT/G...
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  • nonterminal symbols, and a {\displaystyle a} is a terminal symbol, because Robert W. Floyd found any BNF syntax can be converted to the above one in 1961. But...
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